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Building F# Type Providers on Pluralsight!

I was wrapping up The Book of F# and discussing the foreword with Bryan Hunter, he asked if I’d like to be connected to some of the folks at Pluralsight to discuss the possibility of an F# course. I agreed and a few days later I was on the phone brainstorming course ideas with them.

Of everything we discussed I was really only excited about a few topics enough to think I could put together a full course for them. Naturally the ones I was most excited about were already spoken for so I started trying to think of some other ideas. At that point I sort of fizzled out from seemingly endless distractions like changing jobs, speaking at a variety of events, and so on. Over the course of a few months I’d pretty much forgotten about the discussions. Fortunately for me, Pluralsight hadn’t forgotten and my acquisitions editor emailed me to see what happened.

We soon started talking again and one of the ideas I was originally excited about was now available and I’d been working on a related conference talk so I had the start of an outline. After a few iterations I was ready to start recording my Building F# Type Providers course.

Fast forward to earlier this week when I noticed some blog traffic from an unexpected source – my Pluralsight author profile page! I quickly discovered that my course was live!

If you’re wanting to learn more about one of F#’s most interesting features, I invite you to watch the course where I show a few existing type providers in action before walking through creating a simple type provider for reading the ID3 tag from an MP3 file using the Type Provider Starter Pack.